World's weirdest animals

LONG NOSED MONKEY: The Nasosus Machedonus is also known as the Monyet Belanda in Malaysia, the Bekantan in Indonesia or simply the Long-nosed Monkey.

NAKED MOLE RAT: The naked mole rat also known as the sand puppy, or desert mole rat is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa.

DUGONG: The dugong, or sea cow, grows to about 400 kg and is a distant relative to the elephant. It is the only herbivorous mammal that lives in marine environments, surviving on sea grasses which grow in shallow, non-polluted waters.

PRICKLY: Echidnas also known as spiny anteaters, live in New Guinea and Australia.

FRILL-NECKED LIZARD: The lizard is found in southern New Guinea, as well as in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and across northern Australia.

ANGORA RABBIT: The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara, Turkey, along with the Angora cat and Angora goat.

MANATEE: A woman pets an endangered Manatee while swimming in the Crystal River in Homosassa, Florida. Adult manatees have been known to weigh over 1,500kg.

DUMBO OCTOPUS: The octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis are also known as "Dumbo octopuses" from the ear-like fins protruding from the top of their head-like bodies, resembling the ears of Walt Disney's flying elephant.

LOOK INTO MY EYES: A Philippine Tarsier sits on the branch of a tree along the banks of the Loboc river in Bohol. The Tarsier is the smallest primate in the world and considered an endangered species.

AYE AYE: The Aye-aye is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker.

EMPEROR TAMARIN: The emperor tamarin lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas.

KOMONDOR: The Komondor is a large white colored Hungarian breed of livestock guardian dog with a long, corded coat.

ALPACA: The Alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama.

TAPIR: 'Semangka' a four week old Malayan Tapir at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. The endangered animals are closely related to horses and rhinoceroses and the youngster will weigh up to 400 kg when an adult.

WHITE-FACED SAKI MONKEY: The White-faced Saki, also known as the Guianan Saki and the Golden-faced Saki, is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

YETI CRAB: Kiwa hirsuta is a crustacean discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean. It is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws). Its discoverers dubbed it the "yeti lobster" or "yeti crab."

THREE-TOED SLOTH: The living sloths comprise six species of medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America.

MONKEY BUSINESS: These year-old pygmy marmosets at Wellington Zoo fit in the palm of a hand.

STAR-NOSED MOLE: A small North American mole found in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States.

PLATYPUS: Australia's unique duck-billed platypus,an egg-laying, furry animal with web feet that spends most of its time underwater, is in fact part bird, part reptile and part mammal according to its gene map.

ARMADILLO: Armadillos are small placental mammals, known for having a leathery armour shell. All species are native to the Americas, where they inhabit a variety of environments.

AARDVARK: The Aardvark is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.

SAIGA ANTELOPE: The Saigais an antelope which originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothils of the Carpathians and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. Today they are found only in a few areas in Kalmykia (Russia), Kazakhstan, and western Mongolia.

ELEPHANT SHREW: Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa.